nybooks.com - 10/18/2008
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Volume 55, Number 17 · November 6, 2008 Georgia: The Ignored History By Robert English Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Georgia's first post-Soviet president, from 1991 to 1992, has been dead for fifteen years. But in view of his responsibility for initially provoking the South Ossetian campaign to ...
blog.nielsen.com - 10/20/2008
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For McCain, A Start-Of-The-Week, Swing State Ad Surge
Yesterday Sen. John McCain boosted his TV advertising units...
in seven key swing states — Colorado , Florida , Georgia , Missouri , Ohio , Pennsylvania , and Virginia , closing the gap between his ...
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bobbarr2008.com - 10/25/2008
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bobbarr2008.com —
ATLANTA, GA"Senator John McCain will not win Georgia,"
predicts Bob Barr, the Libertarian Party nominee for president."His...
shrinking poll numbers are an indication that McCain is losing touch with the American public as we get closer to November 4th." ...
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Barr Predicts McCain Will Lose in Georgia — Bob ...
voanews.com - 10/23/2008
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Georgia says Russia has deployed 2,000 additional troops
in the pro-Russian breakaway region of South Ossetia, a...
move Russia denies. If the Georgian claim is true, the build-up would violate a cease-fire deal that ended a five-day military conflict in ...
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Georgia Says Russia Massing Troops in South Ossetia
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The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely —
Here's a short list of what I've managed to read outside my CELTA course:
Cityphobia: an excellent discussion of how we got where we are in the financial crisis and who is to blame. (You won't like the answer.)
Georgia: The Ignored History: title speaks for itself, and it's critical background info into the recent Russo-Georgian war.
He Foresaw the End of an Era: a review of George Soros' new book and his philosophy.
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